Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Although surprisingly little-remarked on, the big story of the year so far — at least from the perspective of the fate of America and all humankind — is the hardening of the conservative movement against every possible strategy for dealing with global warming.

Is Obama setting himself up to fail, making Rush Limbaugh’s dream come true?

If you want to tackle global warming, if you want to avert the unimaginable misery of 5.5° to 7°C warming and 850 ppm for the next 100 billion people who walk the planet this millennium, you have only three strategies:

Put a serious price on carbon

Spend a gazillion dollars on clean technology development and deployment